THERE ARE INDEED STILL AMERICANS:  Houston Police Push Back Against Mandatory Mask Ordinance.

Also, as a public service, a note to all the panicky people out there: that mask doesn’t protect you, unless it’s rated N-95.  Yes, I know, but people in Japan wear masks and–  Sure. My friends who live there tell me Japanese wear masks when they might sneeze/cough in a public place. Those masks protect other people FROM you.  However, if you’re not sick or suffering from allergies, and particularly if you see a person without a mask, they’re not trying to kill you. Chances of their being sick aren’t even that high. JUST chill. This is health theater.

Another PSA: Rubber gloves are actually less sanitary than your hands — which you at least wash — unless you change them between places, etc. Just running around with the same gloves all day? Stupid AND unsanitary.

IT’S TIME. COME OUT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE:  Businesses Without Options Defy Closing Orders.

YEAH, THAT:  Lockdown is Destroying Food Supply Chain.

I FIGURE WE CAN TRACK HOW CONFIDENT THE DEMS ARE IN VOTE BY FRAUD MAIL BY THE RIDICULOUS STUFF THEY IMPOSE ON US. SOME GOVERNORS THINK THEY’RE IN FOR LIFE:  Stealing the Election in Plain Sight.

THEY WERE ALWAYS DUMB:  Virus Strikes Media Dumb.

YES, THERE ARE STILL AMERICANS:  Dark Sarcasm In the Classroom.

I THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN BANNED AS A RACIST, IMPERIALIST, CIGAR SMOKER?  These words from Winston Churchill are giving hope during the pandemic.  (And do they also offer hope for the wasteland the reaction to the pandemic is creating?)

INDEED:  Post Hoc vs. Propter Hoc.

NO, ALL CULTURES ARE NOT THE SAME:  Cats turned into paste, sold as coronavirus remedy in Vietnam.

WELL, IT’S THE ONLY VIRUS IN HISTORY TO CAUSE US TO DAMAGE OURSELVES MORE THAN ANY ENEMY IN ANY WAR HAS MANAGED:  How unique is COVID-19?

THE NERVE OF THE MAN, SAYING NURSES, FRONTLINE WORKERS AND PEOPLE NOBODY’S EVER HEARD OF DESERVE RESPECT; DOESN’T HE UNDERSTAND THE PAIN ARTISTS EXPERIENCE? (AND YES, THAT IS SARCASM):  Ricky Gervais slams celebs who lecture ‘normal nobodies’ about coronavirus.

AS PANDEMICS GO, THIS ONE IS A BUST, ALTHOUGH A PROPER RANKING WOULD EXPRESS THE NUMBERS AS PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION, I WHICH CASE THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN MOVES SIGNIFICANTLY UP THE RANKING: History’s 5 deadliest pandemics and epidemics.

JUST IN CASE YOU WONDER WHY FREEZERS AND DRIED FOOD ARE SOLD OUT:  In their panic, the idiots in our government are creating a famine.

I’m hearing these stories from all over. It’s time to stop this panic or people will actually die. In the millions. Perhaps even in the US.

FROM PAM UPHOFF: War Party.

Ice is a powerful magician and trained warrior. His day job, however, is political analyst, and it is once again election year.

Hopefully with fewer explosions and snipers than the last one, but in the Empire of the One, what sounds like a boring desk job is anything but.

Especially when al old flame gets pissed enough to jump into the presidential race.

Between assassins on the loose, duels to the death, and a sense of something nasty coming his way, Ice is going to be busy.

OR ANY MORE LOCKDOWNS. ALSO, BEE, YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO REPORT THE NEWS. LOOK UP SATIRE IN DICTIONARY:  Majority Of Americans Would Rather Risk COVID Death Than Endure Any More Skype Lectures From Celebrities.

WELL, THEN!  New Evidence Supporting Credibility of Tara Reade’s Allegation Against Joe Biden Emerges.

BUT BECAUSE OF VOTE-BY-FRAUD-MAIL COLORADO ISN’T:  Oklahoma governor announces businesses to reopen Friday.

I DON’T REMEMBER SIGNING UP FOR LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES:  The Local is National, and Everything’s Political.

NO, NOR SHOULD THEY:  If Half the Country’s COVID Deaths Were in Montana, Would New York Shut Down?

I’LL POINT OUT WE TRIED TO GO TO THE PROTEST IN DENVER (LATE, BECAUSE IT’S US).  WE SAW PLENTY OF POLICE BARRICADES BLOCKING THE WAY (AND PEOPLE YOUNGER THAN US PARKING AND WALKING) BUT NOT A SINGLE HEALTH WORKER:  “Fake news”, caught in the act.

RUNNING AMERICA OFF THE CLIFF, LIKE NEANDERTHAL MEN WITH AN HERD OF BISON:  Lies, damned lies and journalism.

YOU CAN’T MAKE ENGINEERING WORK BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT TO AND POLITICIANS THINK IT WOULD BE COOL:  ‘Green energy’ is a scam — as it always has been and likely ever shall be.

RARE AS THAT IS, THESE DAYS:  Constitution 1, California 0.

YES, THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH SCIENCE FICTION TOO:  Cataclysmic Feelings.

WHILE YOU WERE HIDING FOR FEAR OF WINNIE THE FLU:  One country, one system: The week that China shredded its promise on Hong Kong.